Joshua Tree News

With temperatures headed into the 30s, law enforcement officials continued searching the desert Wednesday evening for a woman who called 911, claiming to have been abducted and then abandoned in a remote area.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found errors in a lower court's handling of a case that could result in the world's largest landfill being established next to Joshua Tree National Park.

CHEAP EATS Sometimes it just takes one word, and this week's one is shoehorn. There. I'm done.

Saturday night at the Downtown Independent , LA-based collective/production company the Masses will present a look at the work they've produced in 2009.

Police are searching for a man suspected of assaulting his live-in girlfriend at an apartment in the 400 block of East Lassen Avenue.

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court's rejection of a plan - 20 years in the making - that sought to turn a former iron ore mine near Joshua Tree National Park into the "largest landfill in the United States," according to the decision.

Each day is an monumental struggle for Dixie Slocum, as her son Chad Boley battles to stay alive.

The Cal State Bakersfield Alumni Association has named its next Hall of Famers, who will be inducted at a black-tie ceremony Feb.

Alma Allen didn't come up with the idea of transforming tree trunks into side tables and stools, but during the past decade, the sculptor and woodworker behind the now-defunct Venice gallery Pearce has certainly refined the concept.

Its anthemic template, crafted in 1984 with the assistance of co-producer Brian Eno , came three years before a oeThe Joshua Tree,a which took the Irish band a oefrom heroes to superstars,a according to Rolling Stone magazine, and sold 25 million copies.

Yosemite, Yellowstone and Grand Canyon get the publicity, and the visitors. But there are plenty of lesser-known national parks that offer gorgeous vistas and pristine back country, far from the maddening crowds.

It took 22 years, but U2 has broken its own attendance record for the best-attended single concert performance at a U.S. venue by one headliner.

The US is expressing concern about Iran enriching uranium, and possibly creating a nuclear bomb, which in the unlikely event that it were ever used, might spread some radioactivity, yet it is the US which already has spread close to 2000 tons of uranium dust all over Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 18 years.

It's kind of crazy to think that the band U2 has been popular for about 30 years now.

You've been running on empty. Time to refuel and hit the road. A Side of Ranch Passing through the grapevines of the Temecula Valley should put you in the mood to wine and dine at luxe Borrego Ranch Resort & Spa .

From left, Larry Mullen Jr., Bono, Adam Clayton and The Edge of the rock band U2 making their way out to the stage during their 360A world tour stop at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ on Thursday, Sept.

In 1994, Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act, which made Joshua Tree a National Park.

The reward challenge is stopped when one castaway requires emergency medical attention and heavy rain takes its toll on both tribes.

Ever the free spirit, purposely I see out places that allow me to entertain that attribute of mine.

Free H1N1 vaccinations are now available to children in Palm Springs! Riverside County sent out 7,000 doses to health clinics, but due to limited supplies, only children 2 to 12 are getting them for now.